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2009 Economics Seminar Series
The School of Economics Seminar Series are held on a weekly basis from 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm. Venues will be emailed weekly. All are welcome to attend and a light lunch is provided. Details below on upcoming seminars. If you would like further details of any of the seminars please contact our Seminar Coordinator Dr Peter Siminski. Details of previous seminars are also available - please click here.
Spring Session Programme
| 23 | July | Prof John Quiggin (University of Queensland) |
Building 20 Lecture Theatre 2 12:00 - 13:00 |
Annual Economic and Social Policy Lecture Title: Climate Change the the Global Financial Crisis |
| 30 | July | Dr Mario Fiorini (UTS) |
Research Meeting Room (12:00 - 13:30) |
Title: How the Allocation of Children’s Time Affects Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Development |
| 6 | August | No seminar | ||
| 13 | August | Assoc Prof Joan Rodgers | Research Meeting Room (12:00 - 13:30) |
Title: Chronic and Transitory Poverty Over the Lifecycle |
| 20 | August | No seminar | ||
| 27 | August | Dr Oleg Yerokhin | Research Meeting Room (12:00 - 13:30) |
Title: Equilibrium Model of Waiting Times for Non-Emergency Procedures in the NSW Public Hospitals |
| 3 | Sept | Prof Ian McDonald (Melbourne) |
Research Meeting Room (12:00 - 13:30) |
Title: Economic perspectives on social exclusion |
| 10 | Sept | Assoc Prof Ed Wilson | Research Meeting Room (12:00 - 13:30) |
Title: The Phillips Curve and the NAIRU: A Reinterpretation |
| 17 | Sept | Prof Kamal Saggi (SMU) | Research Meeting Room (12:00 - 13:30) |
Title: Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment, and Industrial Development |
| 24 | Sept | Dr Martin O'Brien | Research Meeting Room (12:00 - 13:30) |
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| 1 | Oct | No Seminar | ||
| 8 | Oct | Assoc Prof Amnon Levy, Prof Peter Burke, Dr Khorshed Chowdhury | Research Meeting Room (12:00 - 13:30) |
Title: Implications of Changing Environmental Concerns and Carrying Capacity for Humankind Survival |
| 15 | Oct | Assoc Prof Elizabeth Savage (CHERE, UTS) | Research Meeting Room (12:00 - 13:30) |
Title: Advantageous Selection in Private Health Insurance: The Case of Australia |
| 22 | Oct | Dr Peter Siminski & Dr Oleg Yerokhin | Research Meeting Room (12:00 - 13:30) |
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| 29 | Oct | Assoc Prof Tony Endres(Auckland) | Research Meeting Room (12:00 - 13:30) |
Title: Schumpeter’s ‘Conduct Model of the Dynamic Entrepreneur’: Nature, Scope and Distinctiveness |
| 5 | Nov | Professor Rod O'Donnell (UoW) | Research Meeting Room (12:00 - 13:30) |
Title: The Origins, Nature and Implications of the Risk-Uncertainty Distinction |
| 12 | Nov | Prof Kevin Lang (Boston University) | Research Meeting Room (12:00 - 13:30) |
Title: School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE |
| 19 | Nov | Dr Eduardo Pol | Research Meeting Room (12:00 - 13:30) |
Title: The Financial Crisis 2007-08 and Causality: A Hicksian Perspective |
| 26 | Nov | Assoc Prof Abbas Valadkhani | Room 40.131 (Commerce Building) (12:00 - 13:30) |
Title: Modelling the Price of Unleaded Petrol in Australia’s Capital Cities |
Autumn Session Programme
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Date |
Speaker |
Room |
Topic | |
| 5 | Feb | Dr Eduardo Pol |
Research Meeting Room (12:00-13:30) |
Title: Regulating Financial Innovation without Apology |
| 19 | Feb | Dr John Rodgers |
Research Meeting Room (12:00-13:30) |
Title: Climate, Food & Farming: An Analysis of Climate Change Effects on the Structure of Agriculture, Food Prices and Land Rent Using a Neoclassical Market Equilibrium Model |
| 5 | March | No Seminar this week | ||
| 12 | March | Prof Adrian Pagan (UNSW) |
22.G22 (12:00-13:30) |
Title: Recent Developments in Macroeconometric Modelling for Policy Analysis |
| 19 | March | Prof William Coleman (ANU) |
Research Meeting Room (12:00-13:30) |
Title: J.R. Hicks Theory of Bargaining: a Rational Reconstruction |
| 26 | March | TBA Dr Frank Neri & Yumiko Meloche |
Research Meeting Room (12:00-13:30) |
Title: TBA |
| 2 | April | Prof Simon Ville |
Research Meeting Room (12:00-13:30) |
Title: Financing growth: New issues by Australian firms 1920-1939 |
| 9 | April | Prof Deborah Cobb-Clark (ANU) |
Research Meeting Room (12:00-13:30) |
Title: Cultural Transmission of Work-Welfare Attitudes and the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare Receipt |
| 16 | April | Prof Tran Van Hoa (Victoria University |
Research Meeting Room (12:00-13:30) |
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| 23 | April | Prof Arye Hillman (Bar-Ilan University |
Research Meeting Room (12:00-13:30) |
Title: Expressive behavior in economics and politics |
| 30 | April | Dr Roger Wilkins (Melbourne) |
Research Meeting Room (12:00-13:30) |
Title: TBA |
| 7 | May | TBA |
Research Meeting Room (12:00-13:30) |
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| 14 | May | Prof Paul Wachtel (NYU Stern) |
Research Meeting Room (12:00-13:30) |
Title: What we know and what we don’t know about finance and growth |
| 21 | May | Associate Professor Denise Doiron (UNSW) |
Research Meeting Room (12:00-13:30) |
Title: Private Health Insurance in Australia and the Effects on Hospital Utilisation
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| 28 | May | Associate Professor Glenn Otto (UNSW) |
40.124 (12:00-13:30) |
Title: Strict and Flexible Inflation Forecast Targets: An Empirical Investigation |
| 4 | June | TBA | Research Meeting Room (12:00-13:30) |
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| 11 | June | Dr Daehoon Nahm (Macquarie) | Research Meeting Room 40A G81 (12:00-13:30) |
Title: Profit Efficiency and Productivity of Vietnamese Banks: A New Index Approach |
| 18 | June | Prof Anoop Chaturvedi (Allahabad) | Research Meeting Room 40A G81 (12:00-13:30) |
Title: Bayesian Unit Root Test for AR Model involving Structural Break: An Application to Export Data of Some ASEAN Countries |
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